Hello, this is an report of an woody to sarge upgrade. To give a short summary first:
Summary: ----------- Given the complex and non-standard setup for the upgrade, the upgrade was more than impressive. There was one glitch, with unmet dependencies. Although it is most likely caused by a backport from X and KDE it might be worthwhile to investigate. Many users might upgrade from a system with backported X and KDE. Furthermore the error message from apt was not helpful at all Now the details: System: --------- The woody system had a backported KDE 4:3.2.2-0.credativ.2 and a backported X 4.3.0-0woody4+4.0pre1v3. I decided to update the system from two sarge dvd images on an usb disk with jfs. The kernel running on that system had no jfs support. So I booted Knoppix 3.7. I chrooted (mount with -o dev,rw) to my debian system. From there I did not have access any more to the usb disk any more. I started the sshd on the knoppix system and added an ssh target to localhost (which is knoppix) for each dvd image into /etc/apt/sources.list. I generated the two DVD images I used around the 20th of December with jigdo files from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/dvd/jigdo-area/i386/ The upgrade process: ----------------------- [The full typescript is available at http://www.alzental-castle.de/typescript.woody-sarge-upgrade.txt.bz2 .] # apt-get dist-upgrade failed, with Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxext6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libice6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libsm6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Restarting did not help. Knoppix:~# apt-get dist-upgrade ^MReading Package Lists... 0%^M^MReading Package Lists... 0%^M^MReading Package Lists... 2%^M^MReading Package Lists... Done^M ^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 0%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 0%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 0%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 50%^M^MBuilding Depende ncy Tree... 50%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 68%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... Done^M You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libhtml-parser-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.8.3 libterm-readkey-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.8.0 perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.8.4-3) but 5.6.1-8.7 is installed xfree86-common: Depends: debconf (>= 1.2.9) but 1.0.32 is installed xlibs: Depends: xlibs-data (= 4.3.0-0woody4+4.0pre1v3) but 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 is installed xlibs-dev: Depends: libice-dev but it is not installed Depends: libsm-dev but it is not installed Depends: libx11-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxext-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxi-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxmu-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxmuu-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxp-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxpm-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxrandr-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxt-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxtrap-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxtst-dev but it is not installed Depends: libxv-dev but it is not installed Depends: pm-dev but it is not installed Depends: x-dev but it is not installed Depends: xlibs-static-dev but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. Knoppix:~# apt-get -f install told me E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. E: Unable to correct dependencies This was misleading, I am not aware of any hold packages. The final resolution of that problem came with dpkg --purge xlibs-dev libmng-dev but that was more guessing than knowing. After this problem was fixed, the upgrade went pretty smooth. The complete typescript is available at http://www.alzental-castle.de/typescript.woody-sarge-upgrade.txt.bz2 for reference (and for usability studies ;-). In summary, I liked the knoppix based upgrade. I never feared that I end up in a bad kernel or lilo configuration, which makes the systems unusable... Many thanks for the great distribution. Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 Icq: 32550367
